Like good home cooking--simple but satisfying--such was Ballet Folklorico Los Lupenos' peppy program Saturday at Caltech's Beckman Auditorium. Hailing from San Jose, Calif., and under the artistic direction of Maria de la Rosa , this congenial company of musicians and dancers served up nearly two dozen traditional numbers highlighting various regions of Mexico.

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Ballet Gran Folklorico de Mexico opens PAC By Kate Drolet for The Current Online (Uni. of Missouri)

Musicians from the Ballet Folklorio de Mexico perform on the main stage of the Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center on Friday. The show, sponsored by the Center for International Studies, was the first official show in the PAC.

A mixed crowd milled around the Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center on Friday, Sept. 19. The doors to the Anheuser-Busch Theater opened at 7:30 p.m., and the eager patrons took their seats, ready for the PAC's premiere performance to begin. PAC Director John Kennedy began the evening with thanks and recognition for all who were involved with the completion of the center. "Some of you are architects...some of you are plumbers...some may be secretaries...I'd like to thank all who were involved," Kennedy said.

A history told in moving colors.... when the late Amalia Hernandez founded [Ballet Folklorico de Mexico] in 1952, her goal was to help keep a variety of Mexico’s oldest cultural traditions alive, some dating back to pre-Columbian civilizations. The troupe, Mexico’s national dance company, combines historical research with creativity, refining ancient and continuing traditions into vivid entertainment that bounds back and forth in time as it draws from the more than 30 cultures Mexico has embraced over the centuries.

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